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How to be a Marketing Automation Rockstar

Learn how to become a marketing automation rockstar with these simple steps to stardom at your company. Use the Six Principles of Data Cleanliness and the power of Logic to transform your marketing and revenue.

Want more detail on setting up and running marketing automation? Check out the guide I wrote with RingLead’s Amanda and Joe Fusaro. It is chock full of helpful tips

Just so you can visualize!

Perkuto is a full service marketing automation agency servicing clients from startups to global corporations. We specialized in Marketo+SFDC installations and also provide demand generation consulting. Perkuto is unique among agencies – we develop Marketo launchpoint add-ons suchas the RSS to Email tool, Digesto.

You have to start somewhere, so read vendor blogs, consultants’ blogs, and practitioners. It’s a transformation.

Explain what these mean and why play is important. Thinking – this is what College was all about – think through what you want to do and how the system might help you do that. Tech – this about databases, computers. Why things work the way they do. Things are interconnected. Systems often perform similar functions. Logic – we’ll get to that next. Boolean logic and basic set theory were a long time ago in school – but they are critical to segmentation and running successful marketing. Play – studying a system or taking tutorials can help many people. I find that playing around works too – if you reach a point where you aren’t sure, then hit the books. Ask What do I want to do? Sharing – help others because you learn more when you teach.

If you have ever taken set theory, Boolean logic, tried a search engine, or keyword search, or worked with MS Access…or even XLS, you know some logic. Marketing automation works the same way. This is not the complicated version, just a group of AND, OR, NOT. If you have already worked with certain databases, list pulls, and SFDC, you are already well familiar with this. Each system implements or visualizations this slightly differently, but the CONCEPTS are the same.

Venn diagrams are your friends and you can use these three options in tons of ways. If you are a creative type attempting to get into marketing automation, become familiar with these concepts.

Operators like IS CONTAINS NOT CONTAINS STARTS WITH NOT STARTS WITH IS EMPTY IS NOT EMPTY NULL

There have been “database marketers” for dozens of years, working in direct mail and then switching to completely online systems. If you are one, great you will do well. If you aren’t want, say in branding, ads, or just getting started in marketing, never fear! You can learn these tools without needing programming skills.

You don’t have to know SQL, but if you know Boolean, Venn diagrams and some basic concepts.

You do not need to be a Visio guru, but you should start to become familiar with process diagrams and drawing out processes on a whiteboard or in lucidchart. As you attain Rockstar status, you will become more reliant on these charts to troubleshoot as well as work with highly complex situations, especially at Fortune 1000 firms.

This is a lead lifecycle diagram. If you aren’t sure about it, visit Marketo to find out more. Essentially you always want to map out workflows before you build them. A more detailed process chart would show the systems involved as well as the triggers for moving leads between each Stage shown here. You can do this for any part of the process, whether it is a nurturing campaign, sales-marketing workflow, etc.

Marketo and other vendors, as well as consultants discuss this in detail…check them out.

Alignment is about understanding each other’s goals. Alignment is about continual communication and feedback…faciliated by marketing automation. Alignment is about getting your workflow “right”.

You may only have 2-3 of these at your firm. The point here is marketing automation can automate A LOT of communications. Once you get it going you will certainly add flows that help more than just sales and marketing. Provide examples…

Not a great diagram, but you get the idea.

Rockstars do something about this by collaborating with other marketers, marcom, product marketers & managers, and external writers. Heed the call to become a publisher and have a plan to do this while you build up your marketing automation tool.

Before selecting a MAP or switching, it’s important to go through an RFP process.Get the vendors to tick boxes and to share with you their vision, their roadmap, the nitty gritty. Don’t let salespeople ignore you or run over you…make them stop and find the answer from someone who really knows. Seek out recommendations from G2Crowd and network, don’t rely on the vendor.

I’m not going to write yours, but here’s how to think about it. And by impact, I don’t just mean dollar figures, I mean, will it change their work lives? How? Do you really want to disrupt them fast or slowly?

Analytics!

Rockstars get here because of hard work, delivering value for the company, and most importantly, delivering a better experience for the Customer.

Questions? We have about 15 minutes. Amanda who do we have?

How to be a Marketing Automation Rockstar

1.
HOW TO BE A MARKETING
AUTOMATION ROCKSTAR
Josh Hill
Marketo Practice Lead
July 17, 2014

2.
2#MARockstar
Want more?
Download our ebook,
covering these topics and
more to help you get the
most out of your marketing
automation platform.
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3.
3#MARockstar
Who is Josh Hill?
I work at the intersection of Marketing, Technology, and
Sales to deliver revenue and sales funnel visibility.
• 4 years in B2B Enterprise Sales
• 10 years in Tech Support
• 6 years in B2B Enterprise demand generation
• 4 years with Marketo
• 8 years with SFDC
• 3 years as a marketing consultant and author
• 2 years+ Marketo Champion
• 2 years Marketo Certified Expert
• Always in Customer Service
Marketo Practice
Lead @ Perkuto
Author of
Marketing
Rockstar’s Guide
to Marketo

8.
8#MARockstar
What is a marketing automation rockstar?
Marketing Automation
Rockstar - a marketer
who works at the
intersection of
Sales, Marketing,
and Technology;
marketer who uses
marketing
automation well.
Remarkable rockstar content and SEO does work 

13.
13#MARockstar
A rockstar understands database concepts
DB
The Cloud
(Internet)
1. Calm down. You do NOT need to understand or know SQL
unless you want to become a more technical marketing
operations or business analyst.
2. But, it doesn’t hurt to know what SQL is.
3. Do you know Access? Use Excel Filters? You understand the
basics.
4. Do you build Salesforce or a CRM reports? You are well on
your way.
Key Terms to Understand:
• Fields
• Picklists
• Triggers
• Apex Code (SFDC)
• Page Layouts (SFDC)
• Field history
• Unique ID
• Tables
• Objects – Leads, Accounts, Opps, Contacts, etc

14.
14#MARockstar
Rockstars use flow charts…
• Know your basic flowchart shapes
• You do not need to create beautiful
Visio or flowcharts, just get the
information down.
• Flowcharts become increasingly
valuable with more complex
nurturing and lead lifecycle flows.
• Invest in Lucidchart or Gliffy.
Choice
Action
DB

22.
22#MARockstar
Rockstars use the 6 Principles of Data Cleanliness
Principle What you should do
Design the system to avoid human error Use picklists for standard values
Use read only fields
Use Role and Title
Standard fields and instructions
One field=One purpose Avoid letting sales or leads use a field like
“comments” repeatedly. Create a process to
timestamp and record history. Hint: use tasks.
Use automation to correct values Fix “Country” name misspellings
Employee Range = # of Employees
Prevent duplicates Block creation of dupes based on Name, Email
in the CRM and in MAP
Regular cleaning process Have a monthly or quarterly review of dupes,
data cleanliness, and asset cleanup. Use pizza
to get people to help.
Automate data appending Use third parties to automatically add company
level detail (Industry, Main Phone, Country,
Revenue) for improved segmentation.

23.
23#MARockstar
Rockstars start with what they need…not what the
vendor has
Your tools
Your Brain
Existing RFP Manuals
Survey of what your firm needs
and when you need them
Vendor sites
Salespeople
Review sites/social
Industry analysts
Your network

24.
24#MARockstar
Rockstars have a rollout plan with phases to avoid
massive disruption
• What should you automate?
• When are humans needed?
• Which teams need help now?
• Which teams want it later or don’t care?
• What is the Impact on each team?

25.
25#MARockstar
Bring others into the new world
• Share the roll out plan
• Get team leaders to schedule training
• Provide training
– Recordings
– Short how to guides with images
– Decks
– Help them understand why doing this helps them